I had to gloat!-Here in wee little Stephenville, TX a bookstore that had been closed down for sometime had the lights on so I stopped by. The owners let me in to look around, and I found and purchased several GREAT books at reasonable prices. They had much more I'd love to have purchased several greek readers and full works in Greek, (some loebs). But I have their #'s and perhaps they'll let me back in sometime.

Hi Geoff, how much were they? a tip i've discovered is to look in the "modern greek" section of 2nd hand bookstores... i've picked up the teubner herodotus for $15, and about 15 Oxford Classical Texts now, for $10-$12 each...

What bums me out is, I went to a local used bookstore today that supposedly has almost a million volumes (and I believe it; the place is huge). And out of almost a million volumes, they had one lousy book on the Greek language! One! And not a single Loeb book! Bummer!

I, Lex Llama, super genius, will one day rule this planet! And then you'll rue the day you messed with me, you damned dirty apes!

You've hit rock bottom. You used to get excited about one small find, but it keeps taking more and more. At least we've admitted there's a problem.

What are you saying, man? I don't have a problem! I can quit any time I want to! Umm... I just don't want to right now! Yeah, that's it, that's the ticket!

Actually, I didn't even buy the one Greek book that was there. It didn't look all that good. I bought three old German books (a tutorial and two grammars) for $12 instead. And the three volume Hsitory of Freedom by Herbert Muller. That took care of my book jones (for the time being).

I, Lex Llama, super genius, will one day rule this planet! And then you'll rue the day you messed with me, you damned dirty apes!

He isn't really that tough. I've read about half of it so far....I pick it up when I'm in the mood for some deep reflection. Once you get used to his vocab, it's just a matter of figuring out what he's saying......what I mean is, like Plato....the vocab isn't tough, but he's saying very pithy things. Remeber it's philosophy.....it's meant to challenge your thinking!!

I'm reading Apollodorus' Library in the Loeb Library right now, and I'm finding it a pretty fun read. Remember....narrative is your friend. It's like reading the Gospels....they are much easier than reading the Pauline Letters, or Hebrews, etc. Stories are easier to grasp than concepts....at least for me

I got lucky. Judging by the scribblings on the inside front covers, they were all owned by the same person, who attended a seminary here once upon a time. I would guess that he died recently, upon which his books were picked up by the bookstore I frequent at the estate sale. I found them lying on a table, before they were even shelved properly, so I beat everyone else to them.

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It's a slim blue book, errm... 5-1/4" by 7-5/8" by 3/4". About 250 pages long. It's split up into three parts, part the first (I love that old lingo) being 25 lessons in Greek constructions, with for a total of about 90 pages. In the words of the author "the standpoint of treatment is English, rather than Greek, idiom. In many cases they [the lessons] take the form of directions for turning English into Greek. For example, the different Greek equivalents for while, until, whenever, as if, etc., are collected and arranged so as to make the learning of them and the reference to them as easy as possible." Part the second is about 100 pages long, with 60 exercises based on the Anabasis, books one through three, and 41 supplementary exercises. Part the third is a classified list of words and phrases from the Anabasis books one through seven, with the classifications like 1. Arms, 2. Army, divisions of, 3. Baggage, 4. Battles, etc.

I would be willing to share, but my scanner scans too well, and makes huge PDF files, and I don't have access to a Xerox machine any more. I wouldn't mind sending it to somebody else to scan in for textkit, though, as long as I get it back. The same goes for Hadley and Allen.

I, Lex Llama, super genius, will one day rule this planet! And then you'll rue the day you messed with me, you damned dirty apes!

Many short Greek snippets arranged by theme (the section on "Women" is wretched) in the first section (pp. 1-152), English for translation into verse in the second (pp. 155-301). In the preface the author says of the book, "at the same time it will be found suitable as a Delectus, or reading-book for any one who would enjoy ready gathered a bouquet of choice flowers of Greek poetry;"

The book is clear of marginalia, but the binding has seen better days. I'll produce a photocopy of this to send to Jeff shortly.